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Old 30-07-2006, 11:13 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default How to remove pampas grass


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| Mr Alun Davies wrote:
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http://www.nps.gov/redw/pampas.htm
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| Yes, well!? :-)
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| That's an american (US) view of pampas grass, I suspect it may be a
| bit more of a problem there. Ours was fine except that we happened to
| want to put a small summer house where it was growing.

Yes. It rarely self-seeds in the UK, though I don't know if that is
because our summers are not hot enough to ripen them, or they rot in
the long, dark, wet winters. VERY few of the USA pest species will
even naturalise here.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.